Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Inishodriscol Or Hare Island, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishodriscol Or Hare Island
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.49361, -9.43976
- SMR number
- CO149-036----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough gorse and heather-covered grazing land, on a SW-facing slope overlooking a beach known locally as 'Trá Bhán', on the S side of Hare Island. A spring well called 'Tobar a' Luibín' emerges from the base of a SW-facing field boundary and flows into a naturally occurring hollow (0.6m NE-SW; 0.5m NW-SE; D 0.4m) from which it flows in a SW direction towards the seashore. In the 1930s it was recorded that people with sore eyes used to visit the well, say prayers there and bathe their eyes in the well water (Daly 2000, 45). People suffering from pains and other illnesses also used to visit the well (ibid.)
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Nearby in the register
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.